Your Body Has Been Mistaking Anxiety for Love (Here's How to Tell the Difference)
There's a moment that happens in nearly every coaching session I do where the woman across from me goes quiet, then says some version of:
"Oh my God. I think I've been confusing anxiety for love my whole life."
If you've ever met someone wonderful, kind, present, available, treating you well, and felt absolutely nothing… and then met someone unavailable, confusing, inconsistent, and felt everything… this is what's happening.
Your nervous system doesn't know the difference between anxiety and excitement. Physiologically, they're nearly identical.
• Racing heart.
• Obsessive thoughts.
• Loss of appetite.
• Inability to focus on anything except them.
• Constant checking of the phone.
• Highs when they reach out. Crashes when they don't.
That's not love. That's a dysregulated nervous system. And we've been told our whole lives that's what love is supposed to feel like.
Movies told us. Songs told us. Romance novels told us. "If it doesn't make you crazy, it's not real."
It's a lie. And it's cost more women their twenties, thirties, and forties than almost any other story I know.
Here's the truth nobody told you:
A regulated nervous system in the presence of safe love feels calm.
Not boring. Not flat. Calm.
You can breathe. You can think. You can be yourself. You're not waiting for anything. You're just… here. With someone who's also here: There is nothing more beautiful and satisfying than being able to feel and tell your partner "I love you" and to feel them receiving it and saying it back with presence: It's a magical feeling that I wish on everybody.
For a nervous system that learned love through unpredictability, this feels foreign. So foreign that the brain panics and says: "This must not be love. There's no spark."
There IS a spark. It's just not on fire because nothing is burning.
This is why so many women walk away from the men who could have actually loved them, and run back to the ones who couldn't.
It's not preference. It's wiring.
And here's the beautiful part: wiring can change.
When you do the inner work, when you start to release the subconscious belief that love has to feel like anxiety to be real, something miraculous happens.
The safe person stops feeling boring. They start feeling like home.
The intensity stops feeling like love. It starts feeling like a warning.
You stop chasing the contraction. You start choosing the expansion.
That's not settling. That's healing.
Not sure how much of this pattern is affecting you?
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Emotionally Available or Not?
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